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Some historical linguists who specialize in Japanese agree that it is one of the two members of a Japonic language family, the other member being Ryūkyūan. Others... regard the kinds of speech found in the various Ryūkyū Islands as dialects of Japanese, since it is not yet clear when and how the various islands came to be settled by members of this linguistic and cultural group.
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Japanese is not known to be directly related to any other language or family of languages. Although some resemblances to Japanese and the Altaic languages (such as Mongolian) have been noted, a clear relationship has yet to be demonstrated.
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According to the Ethnologue database and CIA's World Factbook, Angaur state of Palau is reported to have Japanese as one of the official languages[1][2]. The state is the only place in the world where Japanese is the de jure official language, in case the reports are true. However, another report tells that the official languages in Angaur are Palauan and English, just like other states in the republic. [3] Whichever the case, the number of active Japanese speakers in the state is zero, according to the census in 2005. [4]
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